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12 minutes ago, The Song Formerly Known As said:

What's the weather like at the G'?

im stuck down in Apollo Bay. Very windy and wet here. If it's the same in Melbourne I think it'll work in our favour and slow them up a bit

Cold and overcast but not raining at the moment.

A bit of wind and/or a bit of rain will only help us, you'd have to think.

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about to head in on the train.. hip flask weather. looking forward to seeing petracca on the g. dees by 14.

Goals?

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I think this game will come down to the midfield, if we win the contested ball and make the most of the dominance Gawn is going to have we will be hard to stop.

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hoping it's not another one of those games where the opposition continually gets the ball 'out the back' then slingshots it home for repeat goals. we are well capable of winning if we bring our best to the table.

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1 minute ago, Peter Griffen said:

I think this game will come down to the midfield, if we win the contested ball and make the most of the dominance Gawn is going to have we will be hard to stop.

I was thinking about that. You may be right but I'm inclined to think that the key for us will be to not allow the Dogs to waltz the ball out of defence. A lot of their run on stems from there.

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On 5/15/2016 at 2:38 PM, Return to Glory said:

I was thinking about that. You may be right but I'm inclined to think that the key for us will be to not allow the Dogs to waltz the ball out of defence. A lot of their run on stems from there.

Oh definitely! but i think our tall forwards will have a significant advantage in the air, if we dominate out of the middle it will put their backline under serious pressure, but as you say we need  repeat entries to keep that pressure right on

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hoping it's not another one of those games where the opposition continually gets the ball 'out the back' then slingshots it home for repeat goals. we are well capable of winning if we bring our best to the table.

This is part of the parcel. If we're leaking goals out the back it probably means we've got our aggressive forward defence going.

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hoping it's not another one of those games where the opposition continually gets the ball 'out the back' then slingshots it home for repeat goals. we are well capable of winning if we bring our best to the table.

That's what killed us against those drug addled, morally destitute Bummers.

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Absolutely stoked in Adelaide by the news that I will not have to listen to either....

Drain "I love Stringer and hate Melbourne" Russell

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Sandy "I have no f'ing idea what day it is" Roberts

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Absolutely stoked in Adelaide by the news that I will not have to listen to either....

Drain "I love Stringer and hate Melbourne" Russell

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Sandy "I have no f'ing idea what day it is" Roberts

:roos:

 

I'm hanging out for the game where Sandy calls Hogan Neitz. It will happen.

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I said before the Saints match that we needed to capitalise on the Saints undermanned defence with relentless attack. Unfortunately they anticipated that by playing relentless attack and making a mockery of our zone defence. They also found the way to nullify how heavily influential Gawn's ruckwork is.

Bevo is no fool. He'll have spent all week working out how to win this game without much of a defence. They know we'll score heavily if we get it in our forward line, so watch them lock the ball into their forward half.

I'm not nervous about today though I think we'll lose by at least 30 points; Bulldogs are a seriously good team and we're going to be inconsistent as such a young team. As long as we give it a shake, I'll be happy. Another Etihad capitulation like we had last year against the Dogs and I'll be seriously [censored] off.

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